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VB.NET Program - problems deserializing JSON into List of objects

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markronz

IS-IT--Management
Mar 20, 2007
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Hello All-
I am hoping someone may be able to help me figure this out. I am querying something via an API call, and it does return a list of items in its RawJSON. Right now my code does that much correctly, but I'm having difficulty turning that into a list of ServerRecord objects. Please see my code below and let me know if you have any tips for me on what I am messing up. Please let me know if you need any more information in order to help me out. Thanks in advance!


Code:
Public Class ServerRecord
        Inherits Record
        <Newtonsoft.Json.JsonProperty("sys_class_name")>
        Public Property sys_class_name As String
            Get
            End Get
            Set(value As String)
            End Set
        End Property


        <Newtonsoft.Json.JsonProperty("host_name")>
        Public Property host_name As String
            Get
            End Get
            Set(value As String)
            End Set
        End Property
        <Newtonsoft.Json.JsonProperty("u_recovery_time_achievable")>
        Public Property u_recovery_time_achievable As String
            Get
            End Get
            Set(value As String)
            End Set
        End Property
    End Class


        Dim lstSNServersList As New List(Of ServerRecord)
        Dim objServiceNowTableAPIClient As TableAPI.TableAPIClient(Of ServerRecord)
        Dim objServiceNowRESTQueryResponse As RESTQueryResponse(Of ServerRecord)

            objServiceNowTableAPIClient = New TableAPIClient(Of wServerRecord)(strServiceNowCMDBServersTableName, strServiceNowInstanceName, strServiceNowUser, strServiceNowPassword)
            strServiceNowQuery = "sys_class_name=cmdb_ci_win_server^ORsys_class_name=cmdb_ci_linux_server"
            objServiceNowRESTQueryResponse = objServiceNowTableAPIClient.GetByQuery(strServiceNowQuery)
            'this much does work and it does return a result set

            [b]'this is my attempt to convert this response into a list of ServerRecords, but this does not work currently[/b]:
            lstSNServersList = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of List(Of ServerRecord))(objServiceNowRESTQueryResponse.RawJSON)

The objServiceNowRestQueryResponse.RawJSON string looks like this (though much longer):
"{""result"":[{""sys_id"":""00040665dbxxxxxx96191e"",""u_recovery_time_achievable"":""720"",""sys_class_name"":""cmdb_ci_linux_server"",""host_name"":""rlserver001""},{""sys_id"":""00ec543d1xxxx66e4bcb6d"",""u_recovery_time_achievable"":""4"",""sys_class_name"":""cmdb_ci_linux_server"",""host_name"":""plserver001""},{""sys_id"":""0105d975dbxxxxx8961998"",""u_recovery_time_achievable"":"""",""sys_class_name"":""cmdb_ci_linux_server"",""host_name"":""tlserver001""},


This is the error message I get when trying to run my code:
Exception thrown: 'Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException' in Newtonsoft.Json.dll
The thread 0x20b4 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x3e24 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program '[5892] CMDBReconciliation.vshost.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).


 
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